Across

2. A substance, such as chlorophyll or melanin, that produces a characteristic color in plant or animal tissue.

3. Either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal.

4. increasing in volume or mass.

5. The act or process of gathering a crop.

6. A crude image or effigy of a person set up in a field to scare birds away from growing crops.

7. A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

8. Plant leaves, especially tree leaves, considered as a group.

9. Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms.

10. A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.

Down

1. The periodic passage from one region to another for feeding or breeding.

11. A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.